AI & Society

As the US tightens export controls, a thriving black market is helping advanced AI semiconductors reach China

The partnership, a first of its kind for the artificial intelligence company, will use the prediction market’s data to power some search results about the soccer tournament.

Apple is gunning for OpenAI, demanding steep penalties after stumbling on a “rare” bug that temporarily allowed a poached employee that joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information on Apple servers for weeks after his termination. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Apple sought several injunctions blocking OpenAI from using confidential information allegedly stolen by

Some tech executives are nervous that the administration’s recent scrutiny of artificial intelligence models could be a prelude to a demand for an ownership stake.

Major music industry groups, including the organization behind the Grammy Awards, have proposed labels for tracks made with some degree of artificial intelligence.

The practical controls that reduce context, model calls, loops, and unit cost while preserving task quality. GenAI prototypes rarely fail a cost review because of one expensive prompt. They fail when that prompt becomes a workflow. A production agent may add system instructions, conversation history, memory, retrieved documents, tool definitions, tool results, reasoning, retries, validation

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice LLMs to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other harmful actions.

Over the past few years, many of us have gotten a crash course in what we now call artificial intelligence—but really, it has mostly been a crash course in large language models. Increasingly, however, LLMs are no longer the only category of AI drawing high expectations, massive funding rounds, and significant research and product development.

The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

Should you say please and thank you to chatbots? This week on “Hard Fork,” Kevin and Casey talk with professor and A.I. expert Jeff Sebo about why he feels it’s important to be nice to your future robot overlords.